Wednesday, August 29, 2012

PHD POSITIONS IN OPTIMISATION at NICTA VRL, VICTORIAN UNIVERSITIES, AUSTRALIA


PHD POSITIONS IN OPTIMISATION at NICTA VRL, VICTORIAN UNIVERSITIES, AUSTRALIA==============================================================================================================================

National ICT Australia (NICTA) is Australia's Information and Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence. NICTA is offering scholarships for exceptional PhD students working in the priority area of Optimisation at a number of Victorian universities. NICTA offers both full and top-up scholarships on top of base scholarships at Victorian Universities.
Optimisation
The optimisation research group at NICTA VRL, led by Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck, at the University of Melbourne, is recognised as a world-class team with pioneering contributions in fields such as constraint programming, hybrid optimisation, and planning. The group currently offers attractive PhD scholarships for high-calibre students interested in contributing to their research effort. The group focuses on grand challenges in disaster management, future energy systems, and multi-modal supply chains. Fundamental and applied research is conducted in continuous and discrete optimisation, decision making under uncertainty, simulation and 3D-visualisation, and algorithmic decision theory. Optimisation and decision-support platforms are being developed that will bring unprecedented support for decision making in complex environments.

NICTA Optimisation Research Group homepage:http://www.nicta.com.au/research/optimisation


For further information please contact Pascal Van Hentenryck, Optimisation Research Group Leader: pvh@nicta.com.au<mailto:pvh@nicta.com.au>

Application procedure:

Please follow the instructions at http://www.nicta.com.au/education/scholarships/victoria_research_lab


Applications and questions should be directed to vrlschols@lists.nicta.com.au<mailto:vrlschols@lists.nicta.com.au>

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